Exploring the

GLAM Workbench

Tim Sherratt · @wragge

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GLAM collections

new perspectives

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We're all

digital historians now...

WWI effect

copyright cliff of death

Trove newspaper articles by year

2022

2011

Trove newspaper articles by year

340km of records

What's in RecordSearch?

47% of series have no item descriptions

that's 50km of records

QueryPic

telegraph

radio

one click to start!

Trove newspaper (& gazette) harvester

  • metadata

  • text

  • images

  • PDFs

ready to download

just does what it says

Getting data from RecordSearch

  • metadata
  • images
  • PDFs

harvest a complete series!

Recycled ASIO redactions

Jupyter notebooks

editable code!

web app!

Run the GLAM Workbench where you want

simplest

more technical

Assembling data

Asking questions

Hacking heritage

Live documentation

Lots of GLAM data

peek inside!

Search for names

247 indexes

> 10 million records

Papers Past

QueryPic-ish

Web archives

ABC RN Programs

Commonwealth Hansard

Scissors
&
paste

The GLAM Workbench is...

  • Free!
  • Openly licensed to encourage reuse & modification
  • Shared through GitHub
  • Preserved in Zenodo

Use it, share it, change it!

Coming soon...

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Exploring the GLAM Workbench

By Tim Sherratt

Exploring the GLAM Workbench

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